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> Workers say managers instructed them to walk several blocks away before calling for a ride home.

Huh? Why? Zero context and zero explanation given.

This article seems pretty sensationalist... when it's just describing the entirely normal practice of contracted employees.

I mean, seriously... complaints about lines for the men's room after lunch? Spoiler alert: (non-contract) employees of big tech companies encounter those too. All the time, from personal experience. Or that the color of one's badge is a "sad grey"? Give me a break.

Yes there are some arguably valid arguments to be made against the prevalence of contract workers in modern America... but this article ain't it.

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>complaints about lines for the men's room after lunch? Spoiler alert: (non-contract) employees of big tech companies encounter those too.

Interestingly enough, that's one of my biggest complaint working @ Bloomberg.

At Google, things got so bad in some Mountain View buildings, where few were contractors anyway, that they started adding fancy bathroom campers in the parking lots.

I always wanted to find out if there was any relationship to the signs that warned people not to urinate in the showers...

>Huh? Why? Zero context and zero explanation given.

To not appear too numerous every day at 5pm right outside the office entrance and draw suspicions as to what is in there?

Right because leaving an office at 5pm on a work day is suspicious...

Only really works if they are trying to give the impression that NO ONE works there at all, in the uk you will have plenty of satellite offices (and heck I’ve seen plenty of head offices) with little to no branding out front esp if they don’t expect clients / customers turning up at their door.

>Right because leaving an office at 5pm on a work day is suspicious...

Doesn't have to be suspicious, it just has to draw attention to be unwanted: if you don't want to draw attention that it's an office and there are tons of people there work on Apple stuff, that is, which seems to be what they want to hide ("black site" et al).

> but this article ain't it

Well, this is from Bloomberg. It's about what I expect these days.

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